POTCHEFSTROOM, South Africa, (CMC) – Bermuda’s coach Gus Logie has blamed the team’s exit from the 2011 World Cup qualifiers on the failure of his senior players to produce in the tournament.

Speaking moments after Bermuda bowed out of contention on Wednesday, a bitterly disappointed Logie told reporters: “When you look at the scores it reflects the lack of performance by experienced individuals in the team who did not live up to expectations.

“Overall, we only had two or three good scores from individuals and you can’t win games against good opposition not producing scores. It’s as simple as that.

“All before the tournament we talked about how well we were prepared and how individual players knew what they had to do.

“But what we have seen is sporadic performances. Overall, I don’t think we have been good enough in this tournament. We haven’t played good cricket consistently.”

Bermuda’s fate was sealed when they lost their final group stage qualifier by 63 runs to the Netherlands on Wednesday.

They made their World Cup debut in the Caribbean two years ago but hopes of securing a place in the next tournament in Asia were dealt a severe blow when they lost their opening matches against United Arab Emirates and Afghanistan.

Bermuda bounced back with a nine-wicket victory over Denmark but that was followed by heavy defeats to Kenya and the Netherlands.

As well as missing out on the 2011 World Cup, Bermuda’s flop in the tournament means they will also lose their One-Day International (ODI) status.

“There’s very little we can do about it now. You can talk as much as you want but at the end of the day the game is played in the middle where we just didn’t do enough to achieve our primary objective,” said Logie, the former West Indies batsman.

“It comes down to how much we wanted it as individuals and as a team. Some wanted it passionately and others didn’t.”

Besides losing their ODI status, Bermuda have been relegated from Division One of the World Cricket League and face a 9-12th place play-off with Oman, Denmark and Uganda to determine just how far down the world divisions they fall. Bermuda face Oman tomorrow.